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Ashley Strosnider

Ashley Strosnider is from Kentucky and earned her MFA from the University of South Carolina. She currently hangs her hat in Charleston, SC, where she works as a copyeditor and advocate for the Oxford comma. Her work has appeared in decomP, Word Riot, DOGZPLOT, Fifth Wednesday, and Paper Darts, among others. Find her on Twitter @bravenewlady.

Stories in Smokelong Quarterly

Story: The Low Hum of Vegetation
Interview: Smoking With Ashley Strosnider

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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest

Deadline November 15th!

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.

The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatically nominated for Best Small Fictions and any other prize we deem appropriate. In addition, we will pay the grand prize winner $1000. Second place: $500. Third place $300. Finalists: $100. All finalists and placers will be published in the December ’25 issue of SmokeLong.

Previously published as well as previously unpublished work will be considered.

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